1846, Lyndall Gordon, quotingEmily Dickinson,letter, quoted inLives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, published2010:
'I amfitting to go to South Hadley Seminary [as Mount Holyoke was known], and expect if my health is good to enter that institution a year from next fall', she confided to Abiah.
Though all your actions are noble,[…] is itfitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?
1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, inTrains Illustrated, page712:
The last regular steam-hauled passenger train between Glasgow and Helensburgh Central was given afitting send-off from Queen Street Low Level at 11.2 p.m. on Friday, November 4.
It was afitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.
2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber:Believe”, inThe A.V. Club[1], archived fromthe original on6 August 2020:
And really,Michael Jackson is a morefitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” onBelieve’s “Die In Your Arms.”
2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, inRAIL, number978, page54:
The L&YR built a small number of these trains, known as 'Rail Motors', for rural branch lines. It was onlyfitting that the Horwich branch should have its own.
(manufacturing) The process offitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilledfiling to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
(chiefly British, often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; USfurnishing; comparefixture.
thefittings of a church or study
(uncountable) The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.
Since her medication was changed, herfitting has got worse.
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